H.B. 5148 of 2001
Driver’s licenses can have sticker or decal with emergency info; stickers may be paid for by any group. MCL 257.310.

H.B. 5255 of 2001
Hospitals notify patients, upon their request, that hospice care available in area. MCL 333.21534.

H.B. 5258 of 2001
Disclosure of pain management to certain patients; eliminate “terminal illness” in Dignified Death Act within Public Health Code. MCL 333.5652-5655.

H.B. 5259 of 2001
Amends Hospital Patients Rights Law by assuring patients in hospitals entitled to Pain & Symptom services and information about hospices in area. MCL 333.20201.

H.B. 5260 of 2001
Repeals Official Prescription Program(OPP); Replaces OPP with electronic system; OK to fax or email Rxs; patient info not accessible through Freedom of Information Act; Consumer Industry Services may study design of paper form that minimizes potential for forgery, report by October 2002. MCL 333.7333-7333a.

H.B. 5261 of 2001
Eliminates OPP fund and replaces with Pain Management Education and Controlled Substances Antidiversion Fund, and creates the Controlled Substances Electronic Monitoring Fund. MCL 333.16315.

H.B. 5262 of 2001
Allows e-fax transfer of Schedule II prescriptions; updates definitions in Rx section. MCL 333.7104, 7107, 7109.

H.B. 5263 of 2001
Eliminates the phrase “intractable pain” in Public Health Code; updates Advisory Committee on Pain and Symptom Management. MCL 333.16204a.

S.B. 660 of 2001
Eliminates the phrase “intractable pain” and revises to “pain and symptom management” in the Public Health Code. MCL 333.16204b-d.

S.B. 661 of 2001
Eliminates the phrase “intractable pain” and revises to “pain and symptom management” in the Blue Cross Blue Shield statute. MCL 550.1402a.

S.B. 662 of 2001
Eliminates the phrase “intractable pain” and revises to “pain and symptom management” in the State Insurance Code. MCL 500.2212a.

S.B. 781 of 2001
Amends Dignified Death Act in the Public Health Code by eliminating language referring to a 6-month life expectancy; now uses phrase “advanced illness.” MCL 333.5656-5660.

S.B. 826 of 2001
Requires nursing homes to notify patients and certain other persons of the availability or not of hospice in that facility, in services contract. MCL 333.21766.

S.B. 827 of 2001
Deletes references to the OPP and Rx form in the Public Health Code; establishes electronic reporting system to replace the OPP. MCL 333.7401, 7403, 7407, 7521.

S.B. 828 of 2001
State ID cards may have a sticker or decal that designates the person has a do-not-resuscitate order, durable power of attorney for health care or designated patient advocate. MCL 28.292.